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Resolution. 
Conf  Pam  #254 


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UOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Feb.  2, 1865.— Ordered  to 
1)6  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Boyce. 


1  Resolved.  That  the  Bill  to  levy  additional  taxe?  for  tlie  year 

2  1865,  for  the  support  of  the  government,  be  recommitted  to  the 

3  Committee  of  Ways  and  Means,  with  instructions  to  report  a 

4  bill  providing  tkat  the  taxes  for  the  year  1865  shall,  so  far  as 

5  the  same  may  be  payable  in  Treasury  note?,  be  payable  exclu- 

6  sivcly  in  Treasury  notes  hereafter  to  be  issued.     That  the  amount 

7  of  such  Treasury  notes  shall  be  limited  to  double  the  amount  of 

8  the  taxes  estimated  for  the  year  1865.     That  the  Treasury  notes 

9  now  outstanding  shall  be  fundable  in  six  per  cent  bonds.    That 

10  a  tax  in  kind  be  levied  on  cotton,  tobacco  and  specie.     That  the 

1 1  existing  rate  of  taxation  be  so  modified  as  to  enable  the  country 

1 2  to  meet  the  taxes  in  the  improved  currency. 


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